Found a wall in my travels. Was reminded that walls make things great. Keeps Mongolians out of China. The Germans were Nazis before their wall. When they tore it down, Soviet fell. It's also a good Pink Floyd album.

Damned word filters. I can't even write "clusterfuck" on some dutch forum. Just because it contains "fuck" doesn't mean it's obscene or anything. :? A forum I used to frequent automatically censored the word "bugger", which struck me as being way too SFW/family friendl...

I've been living life with this unstated assumption that most people's minds work basically the same in terms of how they think and so on. But based on how differently people actually behave and talk, I don't think that's justifiable. There ought to be a way to eavesdrop on someone's internal monolo...

Haha, holy crap. I just came back from an the most comically awkward date. After trying to get anything resembling a conversation starting for about half an hour, I ran out of topics and didn't get much in terms of help carrying the conversation from my partner, so then we just looked at each other ...

On a completely unrelated matter, I've been taking dance classes. Never thought I'd say this, but dancing is quite a lot of fun :D Turns out that dancing is like a weird social parasite that latches onto your life, kills all your existing hobbies and relationships, and replaces them with dancing an...

On a completely unrelated matter, I've been taking dance classes. Never thought I'd say this, but dancing is quite a lot of fun :D Turns out that dancing is like a weird social parasite that latches onto your life, kills all your existing hobbies and relationships, and replaces them with dancing an...

The related content-suggestion type of functionality seems to frequently have the flaw that if you use it too often, you end up in a local minimum that is nearly impossible to escape from, basically rendering said functionality uselessly suggesting the same content. I'm looking at you Spotify and Yo...

Household fires can be really terrifying... We had one in the building I used to live in. It was pretty small, but still very distressing. Fires escalate quickly nowadays. It's mostly a materials thing . A senile neighbor a few floors downstairs started a fire a few years ago. They put it out befor...

Holy crap. I changed my tinder pictures to the two I linked, having previously a few of the ones I posted earlier on this page. I've legit gotten more matches in 24 hours than I have in the last 4 months :shock: Not one, but two girls started a conversation out of the blue, and one of them even invi...

So I've never been very good at taking selfies. In 99 cases out of 100, my pictures don't turn out very good. Which was frustrating because the pictures turned out so much worse than what I see in my mirror. So I've done a bunch of research, and practiced a ton, and I think I'm beginning to see prog...

Only kinda of facetious suggestion: Try virtualizing it? Most VMs can run headless. Ended up doing that in order to speed up regression testing a system that tied into half the unix ecosystem (and consequently was a nightmare to up/downgrade), by creating a library of virtual system snapshots from b...

I haven't tried doing any configuration with mine yet. Thought I've only used it on a few games. And they worked just fine without any intervention on my part. But I do really like it. The lack of a second thumbstick on the right side of the controller took me some getting used to, but once I adjus...

You can use it with any game, although you have to launch the game through steam to be able to configure it, which is pretty important since the controller caters to so many different types of games. For example of a wonky but usable case, I've used the Steam Controller to play Fallout 1, which I go...

Yeah. The first impressions I'd read were all super-negative, but then I went and watched the film with low expectations, and was positively surprised. Probably won't win any Oscars, but it wasn't bad, at least not by comic book adaptation standards.